Chris Maiden wrote:
Hi All
I am feeling quite happy! I have got Fedora Core 5 up and running on my
Workstation and apart from a few hiccups all is well.
Now I am getting adventurous!
I am thinking of setting up my HP NX8220 laptop with dual booting for
Windows XP Pro and Fedora Core 5.
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I have looked on the internet at a few tutorials and I noticed that
Linux will not read NTFS partitions so I wanted to check my thinking.
You'll get some replies stating that Linux can reliably read NTFS.
This is not my experience. IME, file names get munged, and I don't mean
the case of letters not being preserved. I found that some file names
got "Control" characters in them (i.e. with ASCII codes less than 0x20).
I found this with more than one distro, including FC2, Puppy, DSL,
Knoppix, Kanotix, Kill Bill, and a few others.
So should I create 3 partitions, one for Windows NTFS, a partition for
Fedora and then a 1 Gb partition as FAT32 so that I can "transfer files"
between the two? I know I'll be limited to a Gb this way but is this the
best way to go about it?
I won't say how many you should create, but another FAT32 for file
exchange or sharing would be fine. You will not be limited to 1GB.
The 1GB limitation was with FAT16.
Also wondered if anyone had come across any major problems installing
Fedora Core 5 on the HP NX8220.
Any tips and information really appreciated!!!
Regards,
Chris
HTH
Mike
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